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TV Host Carson Daly Dishes on The Voice's New Judges, the Challenges of...
These questions originally appeared on Quora. Answers by Carson Daly, Host, The Voice Q: What is the biggest challenge in hosting a reality TV show?A: I feel so at home on The Voice, having been there...
View ArticleMusic Lives, Live: Montreal Jazz Festival
This week marks the start of the 35th Montreal Jazz Festival, an annual celebration of music that despite its name, really elevates a range of styles to an international stage for 11 days in Montreal....
View ArticleArt, Mental Illness and Frances Bean Cobain
A little under two weeks ago Lana Del Rey was interviewed by The Guardian. The resulting post was titled "Lana Del Rey: 'I wish I was dead already,'" after one of the pop star's more provocative...
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Joseph Russo Plays Joe Pesci in the Film Jersey Boys
Joseph Russo plays Joe Pesci in the newly released film Jersey Boys. Joseph is from New Jersey so working on the film felt like home. Twitter: @JoeyRussoJr . Photo by Ricky Dorn. Joseph Russo is an...
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Actress Lindsey Morgan - From General Hospital to The 100
Lindsey Morgan plays Raven on the CW's The 100. She's well known for her portrayal of Kristina Corinthos Davis on ABC's General Hospital. Twitter: @LinzzMorgan . Photo by Marc Cartwright. It's not an...
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Week in Film: Begin Again, Whitey and More
I wrote a long piece a couple of years ago, about why I refused to review the third Transformers movie: because the first two sucked, because Michael Bay is the Antichrist, because life is too short...
View ArticleRising Star of Rap: Meet Jarren Benton
Welcome back to the second installment of my special series, The Rising Stars of Rap, where we look at a handful of musicians defining hip-hop going forward. This time around meet Jarren Benton. From...
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The Godfather Speaks: Francis Ford Coppola
Everyone has someone that they would kill to meet and listen to, and the producers at the sixth Produced By Conference at Warner Bros. got to have their wishes more than fulfilled with writer,...
View ArticleReflecting on 20 Years of The Giver
This post is also the foreward for the latest edition of The Giver. Twenty years? No kidding: twenty years? It's hard to believe. Twenty years ago, I was -- well, I was much younger. My parents were...
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'Silence Patton': First Victim of the Cold War
Nearly 70 years after the untimely death of U.S. General George S. Patton, suspicions linger as to the nature and circumstances surrounding the demise of this formidable military genius. On a war-torn,...
View ArticleMeryl Streep, Maria Callas, Mike Nichols, Terrence McNally, HBO -- a...
"I'd like to rip her throat out!" This is what the great Meryl Streep supposedly said -- all in good actorish fun -- when Madonna's tireless campaign to play the lead in the movie Evita came to pass in...
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Yucking Up "The Walking Dead" to a Few More Emmys--Add Some Needed Laughs
Kevin originally posted this in his blog, MyMediaDiary.com. Granted it's a zombie apocalypse; granted it's exhausting peeking around every corner; granted Atlanta in the summer without air-conditioning...
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Managing Michael Jackson and More: A Chat with Ron Weisner, Plus William...
A Conversation with Ron Weisner Mike Ragogna: You've got a new book, Listen Out Loud: A Life In Music -- Managing McCartney, Madonna, and Michael Jackson with a foreword written by Gladys Knight. You...
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MasterChef Recap: 'Talk to Me, Leslie!'
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 5, Episode 5 of FOX's MasterChef, titled "Top 17 Compete." Here comes the drama. This week the chefs had another team challenge of cooking for a beach...
View ArticleA-Sides with Jon Chattman:All Hail Cris Cab
We might as well start calling Pharrell Williams King Midas. He probably won't answer anybody who takes that sentence literally, but I'm simply trying to say everything the...
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Actor Travis Van Winkle Is Slow and Smooth
His name was hardly an asset as a child. Travis Van Winkle was variously called "Twinkle Toes," "Van Stinkle," and of course was asked, "Hey, are you related to Rip?" But now the 31-year-old actor...
View ArticleRob Kardashian's 'Father Wounds'
As a psychologist with a private practice focusing on young adults, I watch The Kardashians reality show through a different lens than my peers. Some devour the show like cotton candy, stuffed into...
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The Misguided Bullying Storyline on Switched at Birth
In the past few years, I became hooked on an ABC Family channel show Switched at Birth. I typically find its portrayal of teenage angst as refreshingly honest and greatly admire their integration of...
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In Commemoration of the Five-Year Anniversary of Michael Jackson's Death,...
We can't believe it's already been five years since we lost the world's biggest pop icon, Michael Jackson. In honor of his memory and the priceless impact he had on the music industry, here are five...
View ArticleSusan Sarandon's 'Thelma and Louise' Throwback Selfie and Other Selfies We Love
Last week, Susan Sarandon posted a selfie of herself with Geena Davis, her Thelma and Louise co-star. She wrote, "Inventors of the #selfie at it again. #ThelmaAndLouise." The photo recreated the...
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